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Show CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. The Beginning of the Inquest on the Hotly of Martin Kkkert. Uoroner Taylor began an inquest at 2 o'clock this afternoon on tlm remains of Martin Kkkert, who was killed by a cave-in on the sewer yesterday evening. The bodv was not recovered until 6:30 last evening and life was then extinct. AVheu the inquest opened this afternoon after-noon a jui'v consisting of Peter Ny-strom,Aima Ny-strom,Aima Crow and Morris Livingstone Living-stone was impaneled. The first witness was J. C. Davis, the foreman. He said that he supposed tho pit was perfectly safe. It was limbered to within about a foot of the bottom. The timbers were placed latterly, about a foot apart, and braced from side to side, when he heard the shout he jumped into the pit, but Kkkert was then buried and an instant later a second cave came. lie considered the pit unusually well timbered. Andrew Michael, the timberman, said that the pit was timbered in the usual way, and he considered it perfectly per-fectly safe. Tho limbers were down r.s low as they could be put and leave room for the men to work. The ground was very bad sandy and gravely diid it run from behind the timbers and loosened them so that they came down. Richard Maloney, the pipe-layer, said that he was in the tunnel when the cave in came. It came without a moment's warning. Kkkert was in the pit behind him, and was caught. He escaped through the tunnel. The timbering, he said, was more carefully done than at other places, and he had considered it perfectly secure. James Ray, who helped dig out the body, testified that Kkkert, when found lay on his face, with the timbers on his back. He was lying with his head toward to-ward tho south. Tho inquest was still in progress when The Times went to press. |